SEDL in Action - Jefferson County
Approaches:
- Outreach to and engagement of families and community
- Attention to school - classroom environment and relationships
- Skill acquisition through sequenced social - emotional learning opportunities and standards-based instruction
- After school, out-of-school, extra curricular and service learning and mentoring
- Alignment of district and school personnel, policies, and practices to support students
- Collaboration between school district and community-based service providers
- Staff development for administrative, instructional, student support staff and willing partners
1. Outreach to and engagement of families and community
There are no programs listed for this approach.
2. Attention to school environment and student-adult relationships
There are no programs listed for this approach.
3. Skill acquisition through sequenced social - emotional learning opportunities and standards-based instruction
There are no programs listed for this approach.
4. After school, out-of-school, extra curricular and service learning and mentoring
After School Civic Ecology Projects, Jefferson County
The Advantage After School Program in cooperation with LaFargeville Central Schools and Cornell
Cooperative Extension nutrition department (CCE) successfully launched a weather-dependent tradition:
ecology projects like “portable gardens” for local food pantries. In partnership with CCE which provided
top soil, 300 five-gallon buckets and 300 tomato plants, dozens of Advantage After School students,
grades 2 through 8, assembled with adult help “Bucket Gardens” that trucks later delivered to area
pantries. Other projects followed: working with 4-H Educators, Advantage students planted bulbs at the
Stone Mills Agricultural Museum, and 100 spruce trees. This spring they will plant an equal number of
shrubs, all donated by the NYS Nursery. Students learned safe use of hand and power tools as well as
good planting technique. They also learned through cooperative efforts about their collective impact on a
grateful community.
5. Alignment of district and school personnel, policies, and practices to support students
There are no programs listed for this approach.
6. Collaboration between school district and community-based service providers
There are no programs listed for this approach.
7. Staff development for administrative, instructional, student support staff and willing partners.
There are no programs listed for this approach.